Capitalism, at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.

Ronson’s line frames “remorseless” capitalism—markets and corporate behavior stripped of empathy, guilt, or social obligation—as resembling the traits popularly associated with psychopathy. The force of the claim is metaphorical: he is not diagnosing an economic system clinically, but arguing that when profit-maximization is pursued without moral restraint, the resulting institutions can behave like an individual who lacks conscience. The phrasing also echoes Ronson’s broader interest in how psychiatric labels travel into everyday discourse and how power can hide behind technocratic language. It invites readers to question whether certain incentives reward callousness and whether that callousness becomes normalized as “just business.”